News

[acronym;
the `Network Window System'] The road not taken in window systems,
an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost
certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been
proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that
too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist
on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing
NeWS from Usenet news (the netnews software).